still think there’s at least 10 to 12 [Democratic] members [who had voted for the bill in November] who have indicated to me that they would not vote for the bill unless it had the Stupak language [on abortion].”

Why put pressure only on the progressives?

There are many excellent comments to this

. But this is the best:

And isn’t this your plan, Paul?

1. Force voters to sign up for health insurance from greed driven corporations while implementing nothing that has any real hope of bringing down costs
2. ????
3. Affordable health care for all!

And as I commented to the article – by only pressuring the liberals in Congress to cave in is how we got a bill so bad, former Obama voters went GOP in Massachusetts. 82% of the switchers wanted single payer, silly gnomes.

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Brother Krugman kept his sanity during the primaries, but after the election he seems to have snapped from the pressure of it all. He’s obviously not a fighter. He wants to compromise, which is how we ended up in the dump. But he wants to “get along.” I would ask Krugman the same question I ask anyone who thinks we should vote for this bill now and fix it later: if Democrats couldn’t write the bill they say they wanted in the first place while they had super majorities in both Houses, how in the world are they going to fix it late? Who’s going to fix it later? And how are they going to get anyone to vote for their fixes?